‖ mesopodium
(mɛsəʊˈpəʊdɪəm)
[mod.L., f. Gr. µέσο-ς middle + ποδ-, πούς foot: see -ium.]
1. Zool. The median region of the foot in mollusca.
| 1853 Huxley in Phil. Trans. CXLIII. i. 36 The posterior edge of the propodium carries a cup-shaped disk... This is commonly called the sucker... It may be called the mesopodium. 1883 Ray Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 653/1 The foot of the Azygobranchia..often divided into..a fore, middle, and hind lobe, pro-, meso-, and metapodium. |
2. Bot. The intermediate portion of the phyllopodium.
| 1895 Vines Bot. ii. 45. |
Hence mesoˈpodial a., relating to the mesopodium.
| In recent Dicts. |